Singular points of the Wigner caustic and affine equidistants of planar curves

DOI10.1007/S00574-019-00141-4MaRDI QIDQ2174203zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wojciech Domitrz, Michał Zwierzyński

Publication date 21 April 2020

Published in Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04618

zbMATH Keywords

singularitiesaffine equidistantsWigner causticplanar curvessemiclassical dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Affine differential geometry (53A15) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

Abstract: In this paper we study singular points of the Wigner caustic and affine $lambda$--equidistants of planar curves based on shapes of these curves. We generalize the Blaschke-S"uss theorem on the existence of antipodal pairs of a convex curve.

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